FINAL INDEPENDENT PROJECT

Design, Assembly and Rendering of a Tipper Truck using SolidWorks and SolidWorks Visualise

Objective:

1. Design the parts of the Tipper Truck
2. Assemble the parts in solidworks assembly.
3. Render a high quality image using photoview 360 and SolidWorks Visualise.

Software Used:

SolidWorks 2019-20 student Edition

• SolidWorks is a parametric mlodeling software used for making/Designing models in industries such as automobile, aerospace, etc. The software is parametric that means the model acn be altered or modified at any given time. The design of the model changes with the alterations made in the part while modeling.

Motivation for the Project:

Being a automobile fan I am interested in knowin the working and the design of an automobile. By automobile I also mean various vehicles such as planes, Ships, etc. The most i am interested in is a truck. I have liked trucks sinces childhood, and since I got to learn about this course I thought to design a truck in SolidWorks.

Engineering Significance:

• Trucks are used for many purpose such as moving heavy loads transporting material. In this project I have designed a Tipper Lorry. 
• A tipper Lorry consists of Dump Body which carries the load.
• The dump body can pivot on the chassis and is lifted using a hydraulic piston.
• The truck is 8X8 drive, to provide maximum traction possible.

 Tools and features used:

• Sketch: This alllows us to create a sketch on a plane or a flat body.
• Line: This allows to create lines 
• Circle: This allows to create circles
• Rectangle: This allows us to create rectangle.
• 3Dsketch: This allows us to create sketches withouth selecting plane or a surafec.
• Extrude Bose: This used for making solid bodies with help of a sketch
• Extrude Cut: This is used for making holes or cuts in the solid body.
• Swept Bose: This is used for making a solid body along the curve or line.
• make pierce: This is used to put a center of the sketch on the end of a curve or a line.
• Plane: This feature allows us to create geometric plane with reference to a surface or other plane.
• Curve: This is used for making curves with reference to the lines and splines.
• Fillet: This is used for making the corner edges round.
• Chamfer: This isn used for making the corner edged inclined.
• Trim: This feature allows to remove the unwanted sketch
• Extend Entities: This feature allows us to extend a line 
• Convert Entities: This is used to convert a edge or a face into a sketch
• Shell: This feature allows us to create hollow components.

Surface Features used:

• Surface Loft: This feature is used for making surfaes using reference sketch and a guide curve.
• Surface Fill: This feature is used for filling a open surface.
• Surfaec Boundry: This is used for making a surface using to different direction.
• Surface Extrude: This is used to extrude a surface using a line.
• Surface Trim: This is used for removing extra surfaces.
• Knit Surfaces: This is used for joining two or more surfaces and joining them form a solid body.

Parts modeled:

1. Cabin:

• This is the main parts of the truck. All the controls for the truck are present in the cabin. The driver operates the truck from the cabin. Suraface modeling is used to create this part.

Tools and Features Used:

1. Line
2. Spline
3. Circle
4. Shell
5. Projected Curves
6. Planes
7. Surface Loft
8. Surfaec Fill
9. Surface Trim
10. Knit Surfaces
11. 3Dsketch
12. Extrude Cut
13. Extrude Bose

Part images:

2. Chassis:

• This is the part on which the other parts are assembled. The chassis is a support frame for any automobile. The part is fixed in the assembly.

Tools and features used:

1. Lines
2. Extrude bosed
3. Mirror
4. Circle
5. Plane

Part Images:

3. Dump Body:

• This is the parts which carries the load. It pivots on the chassis at a certain angle with the help of the Hydraulic Piston

Tools and Features used:

1. Line
2. Extrude Cut
3. Extrude Bose
4. Mirror

Part Images:

4. Wheels

Tools and features used:

1. line
2. revolve
3. Extrude cut
4. circular pattern

Part image:

5. Dump Lid:

• This parts is used for closing the back end of the dump body. Mainly used for peventing the load for falling out of the dunp body.

Tools and features used:

1. Lines 
2. Extrude Cut
3. Extrude Bose
4. Circle

Part Images:

6. Leaf Spring

• This parts is used for suspending the axle to the chassis, it forms the suspension of the truck. The two main purpose of the spring is to absorb the vibration and provide comfortable ride and the second purpose of the spring is to keep the wheels on the ground.

Tools and Features used:

1. Circle
2. Extrude Bose
3. Extrude Cut
4. Linear Pattern

Part Images:

7. Door

• This is the door of the cabin for entering and leaving the cabin.

Tools and Features used:

1. Split
2. Extrude Cut
3. Surface fill
4. Circle

Part image:

8. Exhaust

• This parts is used for removing the burnt gases from the engine.

Tool and features used:

1. Circle
2. line
3. fillet
4. swept bose
5. extrude bose

Part image

9. Rack and Pinion

• This are used for steering the truck. They are used for turning the steering mechanism.

Tools and features used:

1. Extrude bose
2. Extrude cut
3. Linear Patterm
4. Circular Pattern
5. Circle

10. Steering System:

• This connected to the rack and pinion to steer the truck. This is a repesentation of an Universal Joint.

Tools and feature used:

1. Swept Bose
2. Circle
3. Dome
4. Extrude Bose
5. Circular Pattern

Part Image:

11. Rods and Pins for the Steering

• This rods and pins are mated in the assembly to provide turning motion to the four front wheel.

12. Steering knuckle

• This is where the front wheel is placed. This is connected to the rods to transfer the motion. This pivots on the front axle.

Tools and features used:

1. Circle
2. rectangle
3. Extrude Bose
4. Extrude Cut

Part image:

13. Fuel Tank

• This part is used for holding the fuel for the truck.

14. Front Axle

• This axle is placed in the front. The steering knuckle pivots on this axles. This axles has a REPESENTATION of diferential for 8X8 wheel drive.

Tools and features used

1. Circle
2. Loft
3. Plane
4. Extrude cut
5. Rectangle
6. Fillet

Part Image

15. Rear Axle

• The rear wheels fit on the rear Axle

Tools anf features used:

1. Loft
2. Plane 
3. circle
4. Rectangle
5. fillet

Part Image

16. Dash Board

• This where the steering wheel is fitted and the major controls of the trucks are kept.

Tools and features used:

1. Line
2. Extrude Bose
3. Circle
4. Extrude Cut

17. Seats

• These are where the driver and other passanges will sit.

Tools and features used

1. Extrude Bose
2. Fillet
3. Extrude Cut
4. mirror

Part Image:

18. Hydraulic Piston

• This is used for lifting the Dump body. This consists of a telescopic piston arrangement.

Tools and features used:

1. Circle
2. Rectangle
3. Extrude Bose

Part Images:

Assembly of the truck

• The truck is assembled in the solidworks assembly. Various mates are used to construct the truck.

Mates Used:

1. Concentric
2. Width
3. Distance
4. Distance Limit
5. Angle Limit
6. Coincident
7. Parallel

Images of the Assembly:

Rendering photo realistic image using PhotoView 360:

• PhotoView 360 is an image rendering software which is avialable as an add-in in the solidworks.
• The enviorment used is: Gravel Pit

Rendering using SolidWorks Visualise

• SolidWorks Visualise is a Photo rendering software. 

Conclusion:

• All the parts were designed in solidworks 
• The parts were assembled in the assembly
• The assembled truck was rendered using Photoview 360 as well as SolidWorks Visualise